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This is the Twin Jet Nebula - a bipolar beauty 4,000 light-years away in Ophiuchus. Its twin lobes were created by a stellar outburst around 1,200 years ago. 🪐 📷 Hubble

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@AstronomyBit A thin line between everything we know and everything we don’t.

Earth’s atmospheric shield glowing softly in the dark. 🌍✨ Captured from the ISS, this view highlights the delicate line of airglow separating our home from the deep expanse of space.

Markarian’s Chain in the Virgo Cluster, ~50–60 million light-years away. 🌌 📷 Hubble

Did you know that the atmosphere on Mars is only 1% as thick as Earth's? Because of this, sound travels much slower and sounds deeply muffled. Turn your volume up to hear the true sound of a Martian desert. 🎧🪐

Andromeda is hiding a cosmic mystery. Deep in its core, young blue stars are orbiting a monster black hole, defying its destructive tidal forces. How did they form in such a hostile environment? 🌌 📹 NASA/ESA

Milky Way Anatomy 📷 NASA

@MartinLaGrang10 Wow, that’s pretty cool!

@AstronomyBit Which is how the opening of the movie 'Contact', the adaptation of his novel, puts forward in a ( very much contracted) audio-visual representation. youtu.be/EWwhQB3TKXA?si…

Are our old TV shows traveling through deep space right now? 🤔

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Our minds aren't wired to grasp distances this vast. 🌌 📹 @thebrainmaze

This single string of galaxies has enough gravitational power to pull on our entire Milky Way. Meet Markarian’s Chain, 50 million light-years away. 🤯

A planet that orbits a black hole?! Here is what life would look like where time moves slower and tides are 5x bigger than Earth’s! 🌍⚫ 📹 @astro_kobi

The Milky Way's spiral arms aren't fixed structures - they're moving density waves! Stars and gas slow down and bunch up here like a massive cosmic traffic jam, creating the bright, swirling lanes we see from afar. ✨ 📷 NASA

@DreamCassar The original image is a massive, ultra-high-resolution landscape file. It is cropped and released in a vertical 9:16 aspect ratio for convenience when viewing it from a phone.

@AstronomyBit Why are these telescope images in the 9:16 aspect ratio unique to smart phones?

The breathtaking Cosmic Cliffs of the Carina Nebula, captured in infrared by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. 🔥

An astronaut’s breathtaking view of Earth from the ISS. 🌍✨ 📹 NASA

An ancient comet from the Oort cloud passes by the relatively young star-forming Orion nebula. This passing comet is a pristine time capsule carrying the building blocks of our Solar System. ☄️🔭 📷 NASA

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The sun's magnet fields are so powerful, they have magnetic fields of their own

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What would be the scariest message humanity could receive from space?